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The best managers I’ve had provide support- good workspaces, training budgets, protection from layoffs, hiring good coworkers.

Basically making it so no admin work comes to me and everything goes smoothly.

>>prepen+(OP)
Exactly - they are political ninjas, yes, but they ethically view themselves as the feudal lord super-samurai whose job it is to defend and develop all the young paduan samurai under his watch. Nothing wrong with politics if done in a kind, ethical, "win friends and influence people" kind of way